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A comment on Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017). Parent comment

Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017) by jbay808 on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:48PM (#31979097)
I'm not sure how subnormal numbers are relevant. For binary floats, the only duplicate values are (+0, -0) and the NaNs, and in both of those cases it's really up to you to decide if those are really representing the same value or not.
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Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets (2017) by marginalia_nu on Monday July 04, 2022 @12:50PM (#31979122)
I'm arguing against the notion that floats are just bit patterns in memory. If you base your operator== on such a notion, you will get very weird behavior.
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